Agatha Raisin · Book 21
Busy Body
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 278
- ISBN-13
- 9780312387013
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Busy Body" appeared in 2010 as the twenty-first Agatha Raisin mystery, 278 pages long. The series' formula holds here as elsewhere: a body turns up in idyllic Carsely, and Agatha investigates as much to prove herself right as out of any civic-minded impulse.
Its place in Agatha Raisin
Busy Body is book 21 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows There Goes the Bride. It is followed by As the Pig Turns. See the full Agatha Raisin reading order.
Agatha Raisin is a brash, hard-drinking, sharp-tongued former London PR executive who retires early to the impossibly quaint Cotswolds village of Carsely expecting a peaceful life — and instead finds a body practically on arrival. M. C. Beaton built the series around a heroine who is deliberately unlikeable in the traditional cozy sense: vain, competitive, prone to disastrous crushes (most enduringly on her handsome neighbor James Lacey), and far more comfortable interrogating suspects than making friends. That…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312387013